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Beware of Phishing

A security firm recently detected a 974 percent increase in social-engineering frauds including enticing materials, which are typically focused towards male-sounding names within an agency. For added shock value, the suggestive emails are now being sent to folks at work as follows: Typically, attack...
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Dell Systems vulnerable to cyberattack

As reported by Sentinel Labs, they discovered five high severity flaws in Dell’s firmware update driver (dbutil_2_3.sys) impacting Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks and tablets. They stated that “These critical vulnerabilities, which have been present in Dell devices since 2009, affect millions ...
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Cybersecurity- Ignorance can be Dangerous

Cybersecurity- Ignorance can be Dangerous

In the year 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed as a result of data breach, costing businesses over $1 trillion. In 2019, a collection of 2.7 billion identity records, consisting of 774 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords were posted on the web for sale. The...
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FluBot- New Android Malware

A new android malware called Flubot is a major package delivery scam, targeting Android phones and devices across the UK. It spreads through texts which asks the users to click on the link provided to track their packages. As per NCSC, “The spyware is installed when a victim receives a text messag...
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Apple attacked by massive Ransomware Attack

Taiwanese company Quanta, which is one of Apple’s parts suppliers was breached by the group REvil, also known as Sodinokibi. They managed to gain access to new product plans and demanded a ransom of $50 million. The group also released schematics of some of the products to prove that they are not ...
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Android malware app spying on WhatsApp users

As per Check Point research team, an android malware app called Flixonline, which was downloadable through the Play store, allowed users to watch global Netflix content free of cost. But in reality, spying on the WhatsApp users. The message that it sent to the users read, “2 Months of Netflix Prem...
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